Fred Likes the Tesla (Nov. 2012 Update)


This year there is no Fall

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By Art Hyland

It feels like Fall.  It looks like Fall.  You know, that crisp morning air that fills our lungs and eyes.; the Falls we used to have, the little children lining up for school, the football games, the sense of a year ending, a new one around the corner.

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Eight Thousand when he took office and Thirteen Thousand, today

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Wall St hits four-year high…

Is the DOW an economic indicator?

September 8, 2012 –  The answer is no when the question is the present national economy.  For example, in October of 1929, Wall St. crashed and the Roaring Twenties came to a close with bankers in top hats bailing themselves

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If Our Debt Bothers You Now, Listen/Watch This

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The Tea Party movement was spawned by irrational, unimpeded federal government spending on a scale never before done in peace time.  The shock of the bipartisan TARP program in the Fall of ’08 caught conservatives by surprise, but only a few months later, Obama was barely in office, and Pelosi and Reid were

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Concerning the alteration of tradition for political convenience

By Larry Leonard

October 25, 2011 — They asked a question on the air. This was the morning FOX show. They wanted to know what you think about education, today. I think with rare exceptions, it’s socialist junk. Compared what we used to have, public schools today are PC hovels and political campaign money laundering

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Women May Save America

By Larry Leonard

During the 20th Century, most American women were Democrats. That means “liberals.” Something is changing, there.

I have wondered for decades why they supported liberalism. I attributed it to their feelings of compassion, but that seemed odd to me for one very large reason. Affirmative Action. I could not, and still cannot,

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Tea Party Beginnings and Endings

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By Art Hyland

It was the best of times, it was the….Stop. Reset.

Feb. 19, 2009: A relatively obscure Rick Santelli, a reporter from an even more obscure CNBC cable channel was on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade near the end of his

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